Oliver Cromwell

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Excerpt from Oliver Cromwell: A Study in Personal ReligionIN the National Portrait Gallery, between the chamber which contains the elegant but somewhat vapid figures of Charles I. And his courtiers, and the chamber which contains the rollicking and sensual figures of the court Of Charles II., there is a narrow room filled with portraits, grave Of countenance, sober in attire, and lit with a strange spiritual gleam in their eyes - these are the men Of the Commonwealth. Henry Ireton, the political idealist and intrepid dreamer Of constitutional dreams, Lambert, with the grace and gentleness Of an inspired preacher and the undaunted courage of a hero, Thurloe, Whitlocke, Vane, and Walker, the gifted painter of Oliver and Of the others - Walker did for the Common wealth what Van Dyck did for Charles I. And Dobson for Charles II. - and Oliver himself, over the likeness of Milton which represents him as the twin-spirit of Oliver. They have a character all their own. Their like will be found in the future of England rather than in intervening centuries. Oliver, not beautiful to look on, is benignant, firm, modest, a high-erected type Of man, less refined, more forceful than the others, but Obviously a religious man a man, one would say at once, whose religion must be understood before he can be a man who will warn O¿' both portrait painter and biographer who cannot enter into this which is the spring and impulse of his life. A religious period in the history Of England! The most profoundly and consistently religious spirit Of the period!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.